Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah and she gets points for doing it do n't you , you 've been saving them up have n't you ? |
| 2 | she must 've been holding it in because she did n't wan na wipe her bum with her hand and then you know it just burst out before she could get to the toilet . |
| 3 | Yeah he must 've been following her about . |
| 4 | Laura reckons , ’ she continued , a salacious gleam in her toffee-brown eyes , ‘ old Po-face-that 's what they all calls him cos he never smiles-had been having it off with that secretary for weeks . |
| 5 | The issue of ‘ reprivatisation ’ , as it is quaintly termed , is also politically sensitive , and the Polish Sejm has been throwing it back and forth across the Chamber like a hot potato . |
| 6 | She has been facing them down . |
| 7 | ’ I hear that George has been living it up a bit lately ? ’ |
| 8 | Well he said Mike must have said , what has been holding it up if I , we were under the impression that when she left London , she was finished with her property |
| 9 | Mum , that 's Carol , has been riding him out this week , while Dad , that 's Richard , the trainer and son , Tom have been masterminding and monitoring the build up . |
| 10 | If there is an incident when friends walk away because she has been ordering them around , explain to her why that happened . |
| 11 | She has been letting them in has n't she ? |
| 12 | I wonder how long its owner has been trailing it up and down the length of England … |
| 13 | ‘ It 's the price that has been pulling them out as well as the thought of missing out on some paperwork . |
| 14 | Mr Suharto has been tempting it back into his orbit by , for example , encouraging a Chinese business group to help it set up a bank , thus giving the NU 's members a useful stake in the economic largesse that the government can dispense . |
| 15 | Mr Duff said : ‘ His life all went wrong in 1986 but since then he has been putting it back together again . ’ |
| 16 | Miss Superglue has been following us around faithfully with a photographer in tow trying to immortalise their supposed passionate reunion . |
| 17 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 18 | They 'd been feeding her up ( according to Danielle , they would have taken extra food from the other children ) . |
| 19 | They 'd been feeding it down at the where they give the horses |
| 20 | If things had turned out differently I 'd been driving you down here . |
| 21 | Her mother identified it as a wayfaring tree and she 'd been cutting it back during the summer and it did n't seem to mind but she 'd be very grateful for any information about the wayfaring tree which presumably she 'd like to keep and continue to grow in her garden . |
| 22 | ‘ She could have been putting it on . ’ |
| 23 | She might have been having it off with Parkin . |
| 24 | Recently it seems to have been bringing him out in anxiety attacks once again . |
| 25 | Jazzbeaux had been wearing them on and off for two days . |
| 26 | As I waited , Pike started to fall , jumping clear of the stilts that had been holding him up . |
| 27 | Senna explained his version of the collision , saying : ‘ Nigel and I had passed the car that had been holding us up and then he braked earlier than I expected . |
| 28 | In fact he had been churning them out all along . |
| 29 | The whole business had been getting me down . |
| 30 | The Edict of Pîtres in 864 strongly suggests the combination of political and fiscal reasons behind Charles 's determination to keep control of markets : others , presumably local magnates , had been setting them up on their own initiative , but the king now decreed that such markets were to be banned unless they secured royal authorisation , and royal agents were told to keep lists of those so authorised . |